Planet
Saturn
Saturn is so light it would float in a large enough ocean of water.
Surface gravity 1.07× Earth
Mean radius 58,232 km
Mass 95.2× Earth
Length of day 10.7 hours
Length of year 29.5 Earth years
Avg. temperature -140 °C
Moons 146
Distance from Sun 9.58 AU
Saturn compared to Earth
Saturn has about 9.14× the radius of Earth and 95.2× its mass. Its surface gravity is 1.07 times Earth's — so a 70 kg person would weigh about 74.6 kg there.
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